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Friday, September 22, 2017

In the
wake of his infant daughter's tragic death, Steve Brannigan is struggling to
keep himself together. Estranged from his wife, who refuses to be inside the
house where the unthinkable happened, and unable to work, he seeks solace in an
endless parade of old sitcoms and a bottle of bourbon.

Until one night he hears a sound from his daughter's old room, a room now
stripped bare of anything that identified it as hers...except for her security
blanket, affectionately known as Blanky.

Blanky, old and frayed, with its antiquated patchwork of badly sewn rabbits
with black button eyes, who appear to be staring at the viewer...

Blanky, purchased from a strange old man at an antique stall selling "BABY
CLOSE" at a discount.

The presence of Blanky in his dead daughter's room heralds nothing short of an
unspeakable nightmare that threatens to take away what little light remains in
Steve's shattered world.

Because his daughter loved Blanky so much, he buried her with it.

A new novella from the Bram Stoker Award-Winning author of SOUR CANDY and KIN.

Publication
Date:September 12, 2017

Publisher:Amazon
Digital Services LLC

Publication
Length: 73
pages

I received a free review copy of this novella from the
author. This is in no way reflected in my opinion of this story.

This masterfully written novella hits you right in the feels, evoking both
intolerable sadness and gut-wrenching terror. Steve Brannigan is living through
every parent’s worst nightmare, the loss of his infant daughter. To make
matters worse, his wife has moved back in with her parents, unable to cope with
living in the house where she died. I was in tears while reading the beginning
of this book, but then,,,,, Blanky shows up and the terror begins. I stayed up
until the wee hours of the morning reading this book, unable to escape the
siren’s song of just one more page. If you haven’t picked this book up yet or
had the pleasure of reading Kealan Patrick Burke, what are you waiting for?
Highly recommended!!

Born and raised in a small harbor town in the south of
Ireland, Kealan Patrick Burke knew from a very early age that he was going to
be a horror writer. The combination of an ancient locale, a horror-loving
mother, and a family full of storytellers, made it inevitable that he would end
up telling stories for a living. Since those formative years, he has written
five novels, over a hundred short stories, six collections, and edited four
acclaimed anthologies. In 2004, he was honored with the Bram Stoker Award for
his novella The Turtle Boy.

Kealan has worked as a waiter, a drama teacher, a mapmaker, a security guard,
an assembly-line worker at Apple Computers, a salesman (for a day), a
bartender, landscape gardener, vocalist in a rock band, curriculum content
editor, fiction editor at Gothic.net, and, most recently, a fraud investigator.

"I am in awe of his talent" - Bentley Little, author of THE STORE, THE POLICY, and THE HOUSE.

"BLANKY is an outstanding work, filled with macabre details and breathless scenes of "witchy" suspense and dread. An epistolary-styletouch at the conclusion of the novella only adds to its brilliance." - MORBIDLY BEAUTIFUL "...an emotional, literary work of art...BLANKY is another spectacular tale from Kealan Patrick Burke." - HORROR AFTER DARK

About Me

Angela Crawford lives in Corpus Christi, Tx with her husband, Scooter(spoiled yorkie), Larry Bird (a pineapple green-cheeked conure), and two turtles. Her superpower is reading, no seriously it's reading. She reads like 4 or 5 books per week! She spends her free time answering to her little furry master (Scooter). Fishing in the gulf for sharks, because you know, Jaws is out there! Camping & hiking through Texas State Parks. And feeding an unhealthy obsession for Bruce Campbell. Angela loves all things horror but has a special place in her heart for werewolves, mutant redneck cannibals, and The Army Of Darkness.Owner and sole reviewer at Horror Maiden's Book Reviews. I do book reviews, Interviews and articles. If you're looking for an honest review look no further Let me spread the word about your work!